AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1929, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

GEAR WHEEL STRIPPED. , (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dee. 4. The steamer Arungal will be laid up. for three mouths until a newmain gear wheel for the turbines arrives from England, the gear wheel of which was stripped. It is the first time such a mishap has occurred in Australia. There was no panic among the pasengers when the breakdown occurred.

A SHARK TRAGEDY. A SKELETON FOUND. (Received this dmr nt. 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 4. A message from Townsville spates: A shark horror was discovered when the skeleton of an unknown man was recovered from Ross Creek, with practically every vestige of the flesh eaten from the bones. Medical opinion was that the man had not been in the water more than forty-eight hours. The head was still on the ibodv and the boots, andsocks on the feet, but the skeleton was stripped clean. Recently a man fell into the same creek which runs through the town. He was in the water only a few seconds when sharks attacked an killed him before the eyes of tne people in the main street. expensive divorce case. (Received this dnv at 12.25. P.md SYDNEY 7 , December 3. \ tangled divorce which lasted seven weeks with' costs totalling £B,OOO to £IO,OOO, ended with the parties as they were at the beginning. Tom Stanbins Bakewell sought a dissolution from Mary Gwendoline Bakewell, formerly Bruell, nee Cantewell on the grounds of adultery with hei former husband. Bruell and another .Mrs Bakewell denied the charge am alleged her husband committed adu - tery with three other women and claimed ' a judicial separation on those grounds. The judgment traversed a strange historv' cif martial relationships. In 1921. Mrs Bakewell. when Xlrs Bruell sought a divorce from Bruell on the ground of adultery. The suit was undefended. A decree was granted hut the Crown intervened and the decree was rescinded because it was shown false evidence had been given, a sO that nt the time the petition was filed Mrs Bruell was living in adulteij niti Bakewell. her present husband. Three veai-s later Bruell was granted a divorce on grounds of his wife’s adultery with Bakewell who subsequently married her. .

Justice Owen’s judgment took ninety minutes to deliver. The case is the longest and most expensive in New South Wales State legal records. The Judge found all the allegations of adultery on both sides proved. He dismissed the suits, and ordered Bakewell to pay his wife’s costs.